Obit: Mentges, Kathryn (1863 - 1959)

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Surnames: Mentges

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/22/1959

Mentges, Kathryn (20 FEB 1863 - 17 JAN 1959)

Mrs. Theodore (Kathryn) Mentges succumbed quietly to the complications of old age in the home in which she had lived for the past 40 years in Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) at 10:30 Saturday evening.  Had she lived until the 20^th of next month she would have attained the age of 96 years.  However, despite her advanced years she had been in good health and mentally alert until the past year.  It wasn’t until she fell in her home recently and suffered a hip injury that she began to weaken physically.

Funeral services were conducted at two o’clock Tuesday afternoon from the Methodist Church at Withee, of which she was a charter member and active parishioner, with Rev. Cecil Ward officiating.  Burial was made in the family lot, alongside her husband at Riverside Cemetery.

During the service Miss Flora Bartholomay rendered two vocal selections with Mrs. Maxine Christophersen accompanying her at the organ.

Acting as pallbearers were Emil A. Hansen, Milton Krom, Arno Vater, Jesse Capes, Glen Buchanan and J.R. Burager.

Kathryn Mentges was born Feb. 20, 1863, and on Dec. 15, 1896, was wed to Theodore Mentges at Waukesha.  The couple made their home at Waukesha for three years and then in 1899 came to this community, settling on a farm near Withee until 1941 when they moved to the village.  During their 48 years of married life he was successfully engaged in the vocation of farming, and she excelled in the community as a dressmaker and seamstress.  Meanwhile she was actively engaged in the developing of the Methodist Church in the community and gave her time willingly and untiringly.   After her husband’s death in 1944 she continued to reside in their home in Withee and absorbed her time with church, Sunday school and other community activities.  Her Bible was her daily companion and unquestionably she was a soul well prepared for the challenger of death.

Surviving her are a daughter, Ruth of Wausau, and a son, John of Green Bay; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.